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my dad (trying to advocate for me) having a 4-hour long conversation with a teacher about my accommodations that played out like when a chatbot gets caught in a dead-end and refuses to iterate

also duping the Terra Blade for this friend on Terraria Mobile with the old chest glitch

hitting my friend (aforementioned face-puncher) with a visitor lanyard (multiple times) (stimming) on an overnight field trip where the school didn't let me have my ADHD meds

getting so excited after hatching the Century Dragon in DragonVale that I forgot it was 4am and I woke up my Dad who was absolutely ticked and made me uninstall the game (probably for the best tbh)

also Help Wanted (do child labor to avert the apocalypse), Spectrobes: Origins (space pokemon) and aforementioned Ape Escape (no notes, banger)

another one was one of the ben 10 games for the wii. don't know which one. just one of them

some fuckass game on the ps2 that was not spyro (nor ape escape as I vividly remember playing that) that was a collectathon (I genuinely can't remember any further even though I've scoured through my dads old stuff)

without doxxing myself all I can say is I was too enamored with my lunch to not continue eating it during my answer and I also interjected some asides about how good it was in the middle of answering

Axis of Resistance

got interviewed in a bulk thing and my vibes were so immaculate the newscasters commented on me specifically after-action

stapled my thumb through the thumbnail on the last day of school because I thought it was unset and I pushed up on the staple hole (attempt at Good Samaritan behavior) (it was a curved-back stapler)

gross simplification of the utterly baffling circle that is Eliezer Yudkowsky and his sycophants but it’s all you really need to know to get the essence of it

imagine a group of people lead by a guy who dropped out of middle school who are collectively afraid he’s so smart and logical that his ideas are going to lead to the creation of a time-untethered computer who will torture other people in the past that didn’t help build it (unclear whether they want this to happen)

Affinity in 2 is a general mess and annoying to parse. Doesn't help that you have to actually go to the screen to unlock the new nodes and start progress on the next level (from scratch, IIRC, because fuck you for assuming its a passive unlock)

Also, Ursula's blade quest, extremely tedious. so many fucking merc missions. stop

also I pulled everyone but KOS-MOS

oneshot criticism: i have to say goodbye to niko

Never had a Wii U, pre-ordered X DE! v excited since they kept talking like it'd never be ported because the codebase was apparently switch-hostile

Oh yeah, Xenoblade, let me piggyback off that.

1 is very very good, best story, but there's a bit of a plot lull in the midpoints of each of the Titans that can feel like I'm going through the motions. Due to how extensive the areas are, it exacerbates the needed downtime a bit far for my liking. As well, too many placeholder quests that just serve as padding/easy XP. Also, if I have to look for Black Liver Beans again, I'm reaching through the screen and killing Juju myself.

2 has my favorite combat (I miss step-cancelling ;–;). However, even though I do genuinely like the story and characters–I'd die for Nia–it's hard not to cringe recommending it to other people, especially people who aren't desensitized to animeisms. A lot of moments that feel like they're there to hit quota, a lot of things I think just feel awkward. Some of the character designs are just straight-up egregious (my go-to on this is Dahlia) and it sometimes has the aura of "we were making a gacha game specifically for that demographic but then Nintendo told us to remove the monetization so we just nixed that specifically." I love this game but with a large asterisk on it.

3 is rather polished gameplay-wise and probably my favorite in sum but it's a bit all-over-the-place due to having to accommodate both returning and new players from the outset in the story. It's the most disjointed feeling one for me, feels like it kinda scrambled to tie up a lot of ends. It's still a good story, It just doesn't have the unfettered cohesiveness of, say, 1. Best main party overall in the series though, IMO. Named my cat Mio.

they should have given pokemon to david lynch, including game direction, just to see what he'd do with it. woulda been a good bit, if nothing else

am using SoH, but I chose Vanilla Plus preset since it's my first playthrough. Not helping that I'm using an 8bitdo Pro 2, which mimics DualShock, which does not mesh well with the N64 design.

Autojump in 3D is just baffling to me, to be honest. 3D platforming is already hard to eyeball, I at least want to control when I'm doing it. My own personal barrier to entry for the Zelds

i'm first-timing it now and it's really good. my only major critique is that in retrospect with what we have now for design principles I'm really feeling that funky camera control mechanism in a similar way to how I felt it in SM64. Lock-on can be a little wonky sometimes. First-person is unintuitive without a crosshair/focus point. Those quirks are just early 3D, I guess, so it's not exactly bad design, just dated.

Also, give dedicated jump button, please god, there's platforming and it's 3D, please, I beg you, I can't keep autojumping, please